Research Interests in Atmospheric Science
- Tropical wave interactions with convection and clouds
- Stratospheric remote sensing from balloon platforms
- Airborne remote sensing and data assimilation
- Hurricane development
- Antarctic climate
- Ionospheric and atmospheric observations with GPS
- Atmospheric rivers reconnaissance missions and weather modeling
Research Interests in Geophysics
- Real-time seismogeodesy and earthquake early warning
- Seismotectonics and seismic hazard
- Seismology and wave propagation
- Tomography
Degrees
- B.S. in Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1985
- PhD in Earth Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1992
Research Team
- Jessie Saunders (now at USGS Menlo Park)
- Michael Murphy (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Bing Cao (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Ignacio Sepulveda (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Eric Wang (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Steven Liang (masters)
- Jimmy Lozano (undergrad)
- Frankie Martinez (undergrad)
- John Souders (Engineering)
- Sean McPeak (Software engineering)
Collaborators at CW3E
- Marty Ralph (CW3E director)
- Anna Wilson (CW3E Field Research Manager)
- Minghua Zheng (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Rachel Weihs (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- Carly Ellis (lab assistant)
- Forest Cannon (Project Scientist)